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Transform your outlook, career, and potential by learning directly from Cisco’s best and brightest. From technical education to future-focused thought leadership, 1:1 meetings with Cisco experts to connecting with Cisco partners, having fun at the Cisco Live Celebration to networking with your peers - Cisco Live 2021, Amsterdam is the place to experience it all.

Dates Change:
After some further discussions with our partners the wider industry, and in order to maximise our impact and amplify the audience for this exciting offering, we have made the decision to move the event to the 26-28 January, 2021. This will make Global Edge Week one of the first events for the new year – and will provide the cutting-edge community with a strong start to 2021 

The 2021 ASHRAE Winter Conference technical program is comprised of eight tracks, selected to represent areas of focus common among ASHRAE membership.

Tracks include:

HVAC&R Fundamentals and Applications:  Fundamentals are the foundation for understanding applications in engineering. Key components of ASHRAE fundamentals include thermodynamics, psychrometrics, fluid and mass flow. This track provides opportunities for papers and presentations of varying levels across a large topic base. Concepts, design elements and shared experiences for theoretical and applied concepts of HVAC&R design are included.             

Systems and Equipment:  HVAC&R Systems and Equipment are constantly evolving to address the changing requirements of the built environment.  Papers and programs in this track will focus on the development of new systems and equipment, improvements to existing systems and equipment and the proper application and operation of systems and equipment. 

Refrigeration and Refrigerants: Refrigeration is a critical element of modern life, from preserving food and medicine to maintaining comfort.  With significant changes on the horizon for refrigerant regulations, along with new applications for refrigeration systems being frequently applied, there is more need than ever to understand both the fundamental and advanced concepts and issues related to refrigeration.  Papers and programs in this track will focus on refrigerants, refrigerant regulation, refrigeration cycles and refrigeration applications.         

Environmental Health Through IEQ:  HVAC&R systems play a significant role in maintaining indoor environmental conditions. As people spend increasingly more time in the built environment, health concerns are becoming paramount to design. This track will seek papers and programs on developing, evaluating and predicting optimal indoor environmental conditions, especially as they pertain to environmental health.

Building Performance and Commissioning for Operation and Management:  Modern HVAC&R systems are complicated and designed for high efficiencies.  In order to optimize their use and provide proper operation, commissioning is recommended.  This track provides an opportunity to provide papers and presentations surrounding building operation and commissioning practices as well as case studies in performance and commissioning.

Energy Conservation:  Whether it is new construction,  renovation, routine maintenance or energy audits there is a major concern over the use of energy in the built environment.  Designs are using more techniques to reduce energy with the use of energy  wheels and pipes, solar energy, photo voltaic, and more  efficient equipment and new  concepts that are pushing to be standard design practice.  In addition, modeling is being used to generate more life cycle cost decisions for the design and value-engineering decisions beyond standard HVAC practice.  This track will highlight case studies and research that expand on the simple to the complex energy savings measures being implemented in today’s and tomorrow’s designs.

International Design:  Design for various environmental elements, geography and culture demand that new and innovative strategies be developed.  As an international organization, ASHRAE strives to meet the needs of a global membership.  HVAC&R systems vary globally and this track provides an opportunity to share innovative and necessary design elements that can be shared internationally.

Standards, Guidelines and Codes:   ASHRAE is known for its standards and design guidelines – and they are constantly evolving with the intent on improving the built environment and its systems. Designers, Contractors, Architects and Owners must be able to keep up with the continuing changes in the current cycle but to also be prepared for the future changes.  In addition, there is a large interaction of ASHRAE with the code authorities and government to incorporate these standards and guidelines. The series of sessions in this track highlight the changes to the standards and guidelines, their projected path and optimum design techniques to meet or exceed the standards.

Following discussions with our partners and sponsors,  we have decided to cancel Datacloud Global Congress 2020 & Datacloud Awards 2020.

The annual event which was due to be held in Monaco on 8-9 December 2020 has been cancelled due to the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on travel and attendance at events. We are all facing the same uncertainty and we hope that by making this decision now, it allows as much clarity as possible for everyone. 

We have been closely monitoring the situation of Covid-19 and its impact on global travel plans and the likely attendance at Datacloud Global Congress & Datacloud Global Awards due to commence on June 2 - 4.

After much deliberation, we have taken the decision to postpone the event to December 7-9.

In addition to the extended live event date, we will also be extending the Advanced Discount, now extended till 31 July 2020.

The global position has changed rapidly this week as we are in a period of unprecedented volatility. We are aware of the increasing concerns related to travel safety that have emerged, and the restrictions placed on corporate travel by companies around the world.  

This decision has not been taken lightly. However, the health of our customers, partners and team is of paramount importance, and we appreciate the trust they have placed in us in supporting the event. We believe that a postponement offers the best option to deliver value and certainty to our partners and customers. 

In the meantime, we are working to provide some digital content that we’ll deliver over the coming weeks and months. Contact us to register your interest in these free to attend content sessions which include interviews and webinars with keynote speakers from the programme.

As the world continues to adapt to the changing business reality stemming from the global Coronavirus pandemic, Channel Partners has been continually reviewing the best ways to serve the Channel community. Never before have digital mediums been so critical in communicating across business channels, and we are pivoting to meet these business challenges.

While we will be returning to a physical format for Channel Evolution Europe 2021 in London, Channel Partners will not be hosting an in-person physical event in the U.K. this year due to the continuing circumstances regarding COVID-19.

We believe the need for our community to connect, inform and innovate is stronger than ever, and we are committed to providing you the same level of education and community that the Channel is accustomed to finding at our physical events. We are excited to announce the launch of the Virtual edition of Channel Evolution Europe, 1-2 December 2020.

Originally planned as a live event in the heart of “data center alley”, perhaps the world’s most important colocation hubs, the inaugural and much anticipated DCD>Virginia conference is going virtual in 2020. We've created an immersive virtual conference experience that democratises our content and allows the world to join in and make new connections. Major topics that we'll be discussing include:

After 11 years of annual conferences for the data center industry in Sydney, one of APAC’s leading data center hubs, COVID-19 has changed the world & changed what we do. As a result, we will be hosting this year's DCD>Sydney as an immersive virtual conference that will prepare you and your business for the oncoming challenges of a post-pandemic digital world. Major topics that we'll be discussing include:

.....and much more. Broadcasting on 6-7 October, DCD>Sydney will bring together the major players from the A&NZ data center ecosystem to discuss the future in-front of and with an anticipated audience of more than 1,500 professionals.

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Coronavirus update: DCD>Sydney postponed to November 24, 2020

The health and safety of all delegates, speakers, sponsors and partners is of the utmost importance to all at DCD. As such, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone the upcoming DCD>Sydney conference to November 24, 2020 to ensure a safe and productive event for all involved.

Registration remains open for the new dates and existing registrations will automatically be transferred.

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Why DCD>Sydney?

With demand for data center and cloud services continuing to accelerate, the 2020 DCD>Sydney event will bring together senior leaders from across the full infrastructure ecosystem. They will consider how data center, telecom, colocation and cloud operators can best plan and design their digital futures.

Local and international experts will tackle the strategic and operational challenges posed by the drive towards business transformation and how that prevalent process is redefining the requirements of infrastructure and the rules of delivery.